Pod Thai - Maanii II

In this lesson, you should pay close attention to the following:
1) two "heart words" - ตั้งใจ and ชอบใจ
2) the "irregular" spelling (and pronounciation) of ชาติ and สัตว์.
The short "i" vowel above a word-final ต is not pronounced. Likewise, the final ว with the superscript "karan" is silent.
The noun ตน refers to the self, "me, mine, myself."
Two discontinuous constructions indicating that an "agent" is doing something for a recipient so they can act on the stimulus --- teaching someone so that they can sing; telling someone so they can listen; reading to so someone so they can listen" are found in
สอนให้นักเรียนร้องเพลง
เล่าเรื่องสัตว์เลี้ยงของตนให้เพื่อนฟัง
อ่านให้เพื่อนฟัง
Notice also the modal คง "probably".
The word for domesticate animals สัตว์เลี้ยง is literally "animals raised."
The word เรื่อง can be a noun meaning "story" or the preposition "about."

This lesson teaches the days of the week. Note the spoken word for week is อาทิตย์; here the formal, usually written, term สัปดาห์ is used. Likewise "Thursday in everyday speech is วันพฤหัส, but the formal term is วันพฤหัสบดี.
Three semantic doublets appear: "fields" ทุ่งนา; "neat and tidy, well-behaved, ready" เรียบร้อย; and "disordered, confused" สับสน
Notice that the double function of using a primary school text to teach literacy and to socialize the student, i.e. inculcate values, such as being neat and tidy and not "blocking the way" เกะกะทาง.
Note also the grammatical function of บ้าง, used alone or in a series of "some of this, some of that." Compare the pattern of repetition of บ้าง with ก็มาก "lots of buyers, lots of sellers."
The word ด้วย has several meanings: "with" or "at the same time"; when followed by a noun it means "with" or "together"; when used at the end of a sentence, as is the case in this lesson, it means "also" or "too."

In this lesson the "repeat symbol" ๆ is used to show that the word or phrase it follows is spoken twice (notice its similarity in shape to the Thai numeral "two" ๒ ), indicating plurality, intensifying, i.e. "very, really," or creating an adverbial.

Several semantic doublets appear: สวยงาม "pretty", กวาด ถู "sweep and polish," สนุกสนาน "fun", แข็งแรง "strong", เบิกบาน "joyful."

The word เพราะ has two meanings in this lesson: "because" and "nice-sounding.

The compound ออกกําลังกาย, which means "to exercise" can be broken down to "out+power+body"

The directions ข้างซ้าย ข้างขวา ข้างหน้า และ ข้างหลัง "left, right, in front, in back" are taught in the context of รู้จัก"familiarizing" them through physical exercise..

In this lesson the word อย่าง can be used as a noun/measure classifier for "things" or to change an adjective to an adverb as in อย่างระวัง "carefully."

Notice the contrast in the use of เป็น "to be/in/as" found in the expression เป็นแกว "in a line," and "to be something wrong," as in เป็นอะไร

Mani and Chujai use the less formal polite particles จ๊ะ๊๊ and จ้ะ in talking to each other, preserving the high and falling tone contrasts.